Jupiter

• Largest planet (1300 Earths would fit inside!!!

• 2.5x the gravity than on Earth

• Jupiter radiates more energy into space than it receives from the Sun

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0212/jupiterIo_cassini_full.jpg

Jupiter’s Galilean Moons

Developed by Barbara J. Shaw http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00343

Jupiter’s Galilean Moons

http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/niel/astro1/slideshows/class41/010-jupiter-galilean-moons.jpg

Size in Relationship to Jupiter

http://www.carinasoft.com/voyager4/info/images/ThreeMoonsOnJupiter.jpg

Size Compared to Earth

http://homepages.wmich.edu/%7Ekorista/ss-images/solarsys_compsizes.jpg

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Now you predict

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Can you place each moon in orbit around Jupiter?

http://www.ox.ac.uk/images/maincolumn/257_Jupiter_from_Cassini.jpg

Answer

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Europa

Ganymede

Callisto

Stopped by a cop

• He said, “Do you know how fast you are going?”

• I replied, “That, sir, is relative…”

http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/957/90054129.JPG

How Fast?

• I was driving 55 miles per hour, but…

http://www.zenconsulting.net/jasonkehr/images/T1000.jpg

How Fast?

• The Earth, at the equator, rotating on it’s axis– 1,040 miles per hour

– In Portland, roughly 520 mile per hour

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0703/bluemarble_apollo17_big.jpg

How Fast?

• The Earth revolving around the sun– 67,000 miles per hour

http://www.ecology.com/archived-links/earths-orbit/index_files/earthorbit.gif

How Fast?

• The Sun revolving around the Milky Way Galaxy– 486,000 miles per hour

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap011004.html

How Fast?

• The Milky Way Galaxy moving with the local cluster towards the constellation Hydra– 1,340,000 miles per

hour

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap020123.html

How Fast?

• So, Officer, it is all relative, and 55 is insignificant!– I still got the ticket…

http://www.rps.psu.edu/probing/graphics/light.jpg